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    NGC 7552 (also known as IC 5294) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Grus. It is at a distance of roughly 60 million light years from Earth...
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    NGC 2903 is an isolated barred spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Leo, positioned about 1.5° due south of Lambda Leonis. It was discovered...
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    NGC 2509 is an open cluster in the constellation of Puppis. It was discovered on 3 December 1783 by William Herschel. It was described as "bright, pretty...
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    NGC 2950 is a lenticular galaxy in the northern constellation of Ursa Major, about 50 million light years from the Milky Way and receding with a heliocentric...
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    NGC 2803, also known as PCG 26181, is an elliptical or lenticular galaxy in the zodiac constellation Cancer. It was discovered March 21, 1784, by William...
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    arXiv:1411.2969. Bibcode:2015MNRAS.446.2837S. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2295. S2CID 118459544. "Hubble Snaps Photo of Unusual Spiral Galaxy NGC 6753". Sci...
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    1820–1920 (1923, reprinted 1987). "obit. Dr. J. L. E. Dreyer". Nature. 118 (2969): 454–455. 25 September 1926. Bibcode:1926Natur.118..454.. doi:10.1038/118454a0...
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    luminous, have been detected beyond the Local Group in the galaxies NGC 5128 and NGC 4258. Historically Type II Cepheids were called W Virginis variables...
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    NGC 2800, also known as PGC 26302, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered February 17, 1831 by William Herschel. Skrutskie...
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  • 1007/978-94-009-2969-2_62. ISBN 978-94-010-7833-7. Menzies, J. W.; Tanzi, E. G.; Tarenghi, M. (March 1981). "Supernova (Evans) in NGC 1316". International...
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